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The Wolverine Podcast

Balas And Skene Recap Rose Bowl Win, Look Ahead To Washington

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Michigan Wolverines, Will Johnson, News, Davis Warren, Football, Sports News, Donovan Edwards, Michigan Football, Mason Graham, Wolverines, Michigan Podcast, Big Ten, Sports, Alex Orji, Sherrone Moore

4.2529 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Doug Skene and Chris Balas break down a massive win over Alabama and Nick Saban.  Thank you to our sponsors Lewis Jewelers! Visit their location at 300 South Maple Road in Ann Arbor or visit them at lewisjewelers.com.

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0:00.0

Okay, and here we go. So anyway, yeah, why? Because Michigan's defensive tackles were doing a great job, number one, but this guy's had issues all year. And there are a couple times there. Okay, Alabama's moving the ball on the ground in the second half. They're, by the way, they're running backs average 6.9 yards per carry in this game. So they were doing some things on the ground. And Jalen Milrow, too, they started implementing him. Like I wish Michigan would implement J.J. McCarthy sometimes in the running game, but that's a different argument for a different day. But you know what? It works out both ways, right? Michigan made some mistakes in the first half. Alabama made some in the second

0:37.8

half. And when it came down to it, at the end of that football game, it was, I think with about,

0:43.7

you know, five, six, seven minutes to go is when Michigan played its best football. And to me,

0:49.1

when they got to overtime and then that last drive, first of all, let's go back and let's go

0:54.1

to the start of the game because I thought the game plan was outstanding scheme. What did you see differently? They were putting a lot of guys into motion. They were running some sets that I hadn't seen this year. What did you see from the offense that was a little bit different? Well, the base offense, as far as us blocking, I think we settled in and we got quorum going on some first

1:12.0

downs, which are pretty good. In the first half here, we only had two on first and 10. We only had

1:17.0

two rushing attempts of less than two yards on our first downs. That's pretty good, right? So

1:22.4

plus three, four, five, six, your second and mid, second and short, that changes the whole way you call the play or you call the game from a coaching staff.

1:44.3

Of course, the pass pro was good in that first half, but schematically, our tight ends were like, where's our tight ends? Where's our tight ends? We thought they were going to be such a big part of this offense. tight ends are run these little button hooks, and I think they were using those tight ends to clog the middle of that field as we're running crossing routes as Alabama tried to

1:48.6

man us up and created some seams, and all of a sudden, we got guys that are open. You know,

1:53.8

the frustrating part was where was, where was, where was, where's Cornelis Johnson, where was,

1:58.7

where was our, you know, our veteran guys out there on the edge? What role was Donovan Edwards going to have to play? And, you know, so much of this was going through Samajan as a freshman. It felt like, man, did they really set this game plan up around this freshman? It felt like at a time. And I couldn't see from the angle I was watching. There was a lot of the stuff,

2:17.7

you know, on the television broadcasts there, BALIS, you can actually just watch the

2:21.7

sky cam the whole time. That's the greatest thing ever for watching line play. So I think the

2:27.4

mission coaching staff obviously had a great game plan coming in. They executed it very well in the

2:32.4

first half. They, as the coaching staff, called it very well in the first half.

2:39.1

They, as the coaching staff, called it very well. It could have been executed better.

2:43.0

I think we talked about in the opening of this discussion here.

2:48.3

If our quarterback just kind of took a few more deep breaths and settled in a little bit faster because we know how much better than that he really is.

2:51.6

And yet we didn't see, I don't know, Bows, do we even throw the ball down the field deep once in that game?

2:56.7

I don't think we did.

2:57.2

Cornelius Johnson where he actually had him open on the right side line.

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